Can we discuss the fact that this man spoke for almost an hour without one note, script, text, or prompter! Nothing. All Extemporaneous!! Simply Genius!
It’s amazing how these older, incredible speeches made by leftists, Black Panthers, and other revolutionaries still hold an incredible amount of power and truth today, yet any speech given by current-day politicians age like milk. Socialism is a science, and it is the only way to guarantee a safe future for our children!
Back in the 19sixties I had heard of Stokely Carmichael, no disrespect in calling him by a name he no longer uses and perhaps no longer recognized quite naturally and I can and will come back and edit this comment identifying him respectfully by properly stating his true correct name .Yes it was the sixties on the CBS evening news when he got my attention crying out the words never heard so openly throughout this white nation, "We Want Black Power ",with the cameras continuing collecting every words of his cry of we want black power. I searched for the footage of nowadays what I consider such an outspoken famous speak. It were many Black advocates during that era which I took for granted they come and go.I have too much more to say about this great Black man but must pause for now.
And he's absolutely right my husband has told me so many stories of him being a soldier not even knowing where Vietnam was on the map he joined the military to help his mother provide for his younger brothers and sisters and the military lied to him and his constituents and told them that the Vietnamese were coming here to attack America my husband said the country was so poor when they got over there a lot of the brothers would have conversations among themselves and ask how, how was the Vietnamese coming to the US they lied to push their agenda and it is our job to continue to call them out on their lies their propaganda their genocide that they have their hands in, in many places in the world including the US capitalism is not our friends it's definitely not the black man and Woman's friend because we know for a fact our ancestors bodies were the first product of capitalism in the US!
What ever his strategy is in working with black people only, it makes no difference to me, this man was a genius and I hold him in the highest regard. This is dear to my heart and I wish there was more of this today.
Prescient- having or showing knowledge before an event takes place Thank you! I do love learning new words. I grew up with dictionary and a basic encyclopedia set, but in 2023 there is literally no reason to delay learning what a word means❤
I'm a man from the 60's. Detroit,Mi. July,25,1967. H.Rap Brown came to town. Calling out "Burn baby burn" I was 16 year's old at the time. My, new name became H.Rap Green "Power to the people".
When that moment hits us we are reborn, it's unfortunate how our parents never awakened, so they raised us be asleep just like them. We need to make "awakening" a religion. Any Black person who is still asleep should be seen as an oddity, not as the norm.
This guy is awesome! Thanks for posting the video. I first learned about him watching the BBC/Adam Curtis series "I can't get you out of my head". Watching the series I also learned about another giant I had never heard about: Afeni Shakur. Note: I'm from Brazil.
My dad said over and over and over "knowledge is power, education is the key". Kwame, Malcolm, Edward (Said), James Baldwin and countless others did not rip the cloak away for us to stare blindly at the machine or to look away. We are not here to serve the ruling order but to tear it down.
Working at Walmart, McDonald's, Sunoco stations, rotting away at minimum wage jobs. Joining the military because those jobs suck & the military offers the possibility of a better "education" leading to a better job. Competing with other working class folks with whom they ought to be cooperating & organizing.
What a priest! This man was far ahead in seeing what this world truly is. It is only now in 2023 that the world as a whole begins to realise that this world is hell.
This was a powerful lecture. I’d say most people of that era were too busy, taking a blue pill to swallow the pill he was giving. Denial and putting their faith in the Democratic Party felt safer.
Itikadi ya Kwame Toure ni safi sana na inatuletea uhuru huria ya fikira za akili zetu. Waafrika tuko pamoja milele daima na lazima tukumbatie mawazo na wito wake. Majaliwa!
It is amazing to hear what I thought I knew Inspired in truth is a painful experience I laugh with you I can hate with you in the end I am with you Even if I don't know what I don't know What I do know is I am with you and I love you This is an the eco of what I believe is so true We must be in truth or freedom will blind us all from how words feed us. I love this man He tells the truth I love this man like I love myself Thank you from my heart I see my reflection I love you
What is amazing here was the open & honest discussion of issues based of facts (not propaganda or manipulations) devoid of control from the power-that-be in universities - unlike now when opposing views (disapproved by the elites) are silenced and/or punished.
sought this out tonight after the state sanctioned murder of khaliifah marcellus williams. it will never cease to amaze and enrage me how speeches like this from 40+ years ago are still so salient.
Today, they have us talking about 'white supremacy' instead of anti-capitalism. You claim that they are the same, but if the ppl don't know/understand that, then they are not talking about anti-capitalism.
Basically the people control the factories. Economic democracy where instead of a boss man leading us, we control the workplace as workers. Like the African village, sharing the fruits of our labor and cooperating.
Capitalism is a System in which all people are motivated to acquire as many resources as possible for themselves and to take away as many resources from others. In both those motivations, the successful capitalist does so while putting in the smallest effort. Imagine this, I want to sell you a steak that I cooked. In capitalism, I would have to charge you more money for that steak than it took me to make the steak. So, the only way to do this is to either lie or to convince you that you are incapable of making the steak yourself. In socialism, the PEOPLE are working together, not to acquire profit for themselves, but to serve each other. The only incentive to work is the desire to create a prosperous society. People don’t cook steaks to acquire money, they cook steaks because they want to feed the people. People don’t extract coal to give to a fat billionaire who sits in his mansion all day and pays people Pennie’s people mine coal so that their community can have heat. There is no competition in socialism. Without that competition, the people don’t need to lie cheat and steal in order to get ahead. In a capitalist system, the true currency isn’t money, but the capacity for violence. The most powerful means of extracting resources from others is by putting a gun to their head. In the capitalist system, you make it illegal to not work. In the capitalist system, you make it illegal to be homeless. In the capitalist system, you starve if you have no money for food and you die if you have no money for medicine. The people have no choice in the capitalist system. And then, the boss decides he’s going to pay you 2 pennies for every 2 million pennies he makes by doing nothing. When you rise up and stop working until you get paid more, he puts a gun to your head until you get back to work. This is why the United States spends more money on weapons than the next 25 nations combined. Because they can point a gun to the head of China, India, Brazil, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Haiti, The Congo, Somalia, IRAQ, Yemen, and everywhere else and then force the people there to work for free. This is why, whenever a nation says “we are going to become socialist now,” the United States declares war. The socialist nation can charge a higher price for oil because the workers there are empowered. Countries the United States has Declared War on Because They Chose Socialism: 1) Yemen 2) Korea 3) Russia 4) Yugoslavia 5) Nicaragua 6) Chile 7) Libya 8) China 9) Cuba 10) Panama 11) Malaysia 12) Vietnam And many many many more. If you have any more questions let me know.
Here’s another way to look at it. Two people get stranded on an island. One person wakes up first and finds all the coconuts and keeps them for himself. He sits on the pile of coconuts. He happens to have a pistol. The other person wakes up and says, “can I have a coconut!” The other person says, “of course my friend. But you have to wash my feet first.” This is capitalism Socialism: one person finds the coconuts. They divide them evenly to share with the other person so that they can both stay alive and work together to form a solution. Socialism relies on the best parts of humanity while capitalism relies on the worst. Socialism relies on compassion, generosity, empathy, curiosity, community, family, peace, and culture. Capitalism relies on greed, jealousy, impulsivity, exploitation, objectification, and violence.
i MET HIM AS A YOUNG MAN AT 13 YRS OLD IN FREEPORT , BAHAMAS AND HE WAS A VERY NICE MAN, HIM JESSE JACKSON AND CREW .. HE LIKES PING PONG AND PLAYED ME A MATCH WITH JESSE J. Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 under Diane Nash's leadership. CARMICHAEL WAS HIS NAME THEN!!!
Hello Ms. Ganga, please discourage Africans and the Diaspora from criticising each other. It's not good. "You know who" would be willing to use it on weak-minded ones, give it momentum.....tell them to STOP IT!
The Trinidadian African IS among the best Pan-Africanists, speakers, global analysts, and psycho-social motivators. Stevie Wonder has been organizing with lyrics, rhythms, melodies and harmonies; doesn't he?
Malcolm X was another very articulate, intelligent, social justice warrior & a great leader African American from those bygone days. Gone too soon by assasination😢.
We really lost a treasure when we lost this man. So I thank all of those who post these videos because he, Brother Kwame, can continue to teach and inspire.
“Once you understand capitalism you understand racism” one you understand this, and you’re a public figure, “they” will come after you promptly, and won’t stop until you’re silenced.
